I appreciate that Tom. I would likely not have figured that out and would have been back in touch.
k
>Hi Karen,
>
>I'm glad that it might help you in your work.
>
>However, if you want to work with _cliptext this sample might be better:
>
>
>* // Test function
>CopyDoc2Clip(GETFILE())
>
>* // Copy Text into Clipboard
>FUNCTION CopyDoc2Clip as Boolean
>LPARAMETERS pcFile as String
>
> LOCAL loWord as Object, llReturn as Boolean
> llReturn = .F.
> IF FILE(pcFile)
> TRY
> loWord = CREATEOBJECT([Word.Application])
> loWord.documents.open(pcFile)
> loWord.ActiveDocument.Content.Copy
> loWord.quit
> loWord = .null.
> RELEASE loWord
> llReturn = .T.
> CATCH
> * Display message if anything went wrong
> ENDTRY
> ENDIF
> RETURN llReturn
>
>ENDFUNC
>